Online Safety Bill: supporting documents

Supporting documentation for legislation to establish a new regulatory framework to tackle harmful content online, and make reforms to the criminal law.

From:

Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Online Safety Bill: factsheet

HTML

Online Safety Bill: impact assessment

PDF, 3.42 MB, 108 pages

Online Safety Bill: Regulatory Policy Committee opinion

PDF, 224 KB, 12 pages

Online Safety Bill: European Convention on Human Rights Memorandum

HTML

Online Safety Bill: communications offences factsheet

HTML

The Online Safety Bill delivers the government’s manifesto commitment to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online while defending free expression.

This Bill gives effect to the policy approach outlined in the Full government response to the Online Harms White Paper consultation, and reflects many of the recommendations from pre-legislative scrutiny.

The supporting documentation includes:

• fact sheet
• impact assessment
  • for general enquiries or in response to any of the questions included in this impact assessment, please contact soh-analysis-team@dcms.gov.uk
• impact assessment: Regulatory Policy Committee opinion
• European Convention Human Rights Memorandum